IEEE Computer Society Huntsville Chapter Meeting

Kurt Lessmann, Amtec Corporation

"Introduction to the Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA)"

Thursday, November 13, 2003

11:30 - 1:30

The Adtran East Tower. Ask the receptionist for directions to the cafeteria. The meeting will be in the Private Dining Room located directly past the cash registers. The cafeteria has several food stations and a wide variety of reasonably priced meal items are available. If you wish a meal you may take a tray in to the Dinning Room.

Take Bradford Drive West past Research Park Boulevard. Continue through the stop light at Explorer Boulevard. The Adtran East Tower is straight ahead. Continue straight to the front courtyard, spaces marked for visitor parking are on the left. If no spaces are available, follow the road around to the right to the general parking area.

Please notify Glenn Cox at gcox@cs.uah.edu, or 824-6433 if you plan to attend.

Abstract: The test and training ranges developed by the US military provide capabilities that far surpass any similar capability worldwide. With today's emphasis on joint testing and training, there is a growing need to conduct tests and training using assets from multiple ranges. However, the non-interoperable designs of ranges and range equipment make the goal of multi-range testing extremely difficult and costly to meet. To address this problem, OSD created the Foundation Initiative 2010 (FI2010) project and within it, the Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA) program. TENA is developing an architecture and infrastructure that will allow testers and trainers to form "logical ranges" by connecting assets of geographically dispersed ranges. Numerous successful TENA implementations and tests have been conducted and have demonstrated interoperability of range instrumentation systems and blue systems.

Biographical Sketch: Kurt Lessmann supports FI2010 as TENA Object Model Development Lead. In addition he is a member of the TENA Development Advisory Team (DAT) whose mission is to ensure that TENA supports requirements of the test and training community. His background includes the development of HWIL facilities and simulations to support developmental testing of Army weapon systems.